Category Archives: Dialysis

Do you know kidney diseases kill more than 800 million people every year? Yes, according to The 2018 United Nations High-Level Meetings on Non-Communicable Diseases, Chronic kidney disease is the 6^th fastest growing cause of death in the world.

Recent studies have been at pains to point out the increasing numbers of patients suffering from chronic kidney disease. One of the main factors causing kidney diseases is hypertension, something that affects 25% of adult African population today, and the numbers are only increasing.